Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.7 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

• todo => not started yet
• in-progress => started, but not completed yet
• done => completed

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Number grouping support	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Narrow date name format support	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Week Numbers support	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Windows Backend	John Layt <[email protected]>

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Dolphin	Support Fwd/Back Mouse Buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Polish the default user interface to minimize visual clutter (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html)	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Improve user interface for searching files and metadata	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
TO DO	Settings	Improve proxy configuration dialog	Dawit Alemayehu <[email protected]>

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio_sftp	async download support	Andreas Schneider <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Locale definition files	Migrate Country and Currency Codes to xml/po formats, re-arrange l10n files including settings and flags, add Subdivision code files.	John Layt <[email protected]>

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Allow a shortcut per keyboard layout (bug 224489)	Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Session management for keyboard layouts (bug 52095, 174948)	Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Clock/Calendar	improve usability, settings, akonadi and holiday data. See Plasma wiki.	John Layt <[email protected]>
KWin
DONE	Compositor	OpenGL 2.x/OpenGL ES 2.0 compositing backend (see http://www.kdenews.org/2011/02/18/kwin-embraces-new-platforms-opengl-es-20-support)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Compositor	New Shadow System (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/new-kwin-shadows/)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	BoxSwitch Effect	Animated Selection (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/02/is-kwin-rocket-science/)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libkwineffects	API cleanup	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	libkwineffects	JavaScript bindings for writing Effects	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Mouse Emulation	Better accessibility support in mouse emulation	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwin	Add multi head support	Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Bookmark Manager	Dennis Nienhüser, Thibaut Gridel <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Extended QML Bindings	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Offline Address Search	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Integrate the Qalculate backend	Matteo Agostinelli <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Use KUnitConversion for all the Unit handling	Etienne Rebetez <etienne.rebetez@oberwallisch>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add getdirection command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
IN PROGRESS	Step	Copy-and-Paste of items	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
TO DO	Step	Zoom on mouse wheel	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
TO DO	Step	Automatic expanding canvas	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Allow reminders after the main alarm	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Add support for Holiday Types and Observance Types	John Layt <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Adjustable Clock	Plasmoid for displaying date and time in very customizable way	Michał Dutkiewicz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Comic Plasmoid	Support random comic strips	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO	Comic Plasmoid	Support creation of comic Comic Book Archive files	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO	Events Runner	Support parsing weekdays (e.g. "in next monday"	Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>

kdetoys

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KTeaTime	Port to KStatusNotifierItem	Miha Čančula <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	New svg based status icons	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	Support categories	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Improved command line	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Tea runner	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Port to KConfigXT	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	Remote translation memories	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	QA: translation checks against user-specified regex-based rules	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Continue implementing XLIFF spec	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Segmentation [editing] functionality	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Level editor	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Load levelset option + 2 new levelsets	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakout	Port to QGraphicsView	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Working Mms plugin	Ernesto Rodriguez Ortiz <[email protected]>